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Cultures at War
Tony Day (Ed.)
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Description for Cultures at War
Paperback. Editor(s): Day, Tony; Liem, Maya H. T. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJP; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 239 x 19. Weight in Grams: 648.
The Cold War in Southeast Asia was a many-faceted conflict, driven by regional historical imperatives as much as by the contest between global superpowers. The essays in this book offer the most detailed and probing examination to date of the cultural dimension of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian culture from the late 1940s to the late 1970s was primarily shaped by a long-standing search for national identity and independence, which took place in the context of intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the Peoples' Republic of China emerging in 1949 as another ... Read more
The Cold War in Southeast Asia was a many-faceted conflict, driven by regional historical imperatives as much as by the contest between global superpowers. The essays in this book offer the most detailed and probing examination to date of the cultural dimension of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian culture from the late 1940s to the late 1970s was primarily shaped by a long-standing search for national identity and independence, which took place in the context of intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the Peoples' Republic of China emerging in 1949 as another ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
648g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780877277514
SKU
V9780877277514
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99-1
About Tony Day (Ed.)
Tony Day is a Visiting Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Previously, he taught Southeast Asian and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Maya H. T. Liem co-headied, with contributor Jennifer Lindsay, an international research project on Indonesian cultural history from 1950-65, and is ... Read more
Reviews for Cultures at War
These innovative essays compel us to reevaluate our understanding of the Cold War as a predominantly political and military event. Their consideration of a broad range of cultural forms-from literature and film to glossy magazines and bodybuilding-remind us that the Cold War's influence on culture and its producers was as varied and complex as the Southeast Asian countries it touched. ... Read more